U.S. President Donald Trump says new tariffs on semiconductors will be unveiled as early as next week.

In an interview with CNBC , Trump said semiconductors and chips are a “separate category” from other goods and will be hit with their own levies accordingly, “within the next week or so.” As is the case with all of the other tariffed goods, he says this is being done to drive production to the U.S.

That’s easier said than done, however. The majority of these components, which are used in everything from phones and cars to video game consoles and AI, are produced in Taiwan. These production chains are the source of chips for giants like Nvidia, Qualcomm and Apple, and it would be incredibly costly and infeasible to fully move to the U.S. For instance, analysts have estimated that such a

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